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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 5742c42b75 fix(chat): tell agents to write company links as Markdown links (#19981)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - In chat, an agent often gives the person a link to the next place to
act: a task, an approval, a run or an agent profile.
> - Chat guidance gives the correct paths, but it does not say how to
write them.
> - The chat makes links from Markdown links and issue identifiers. It
does not make a link from a bare `/<prefix>/approvals/<id>` path.
> - An agent proposed a hire and wrote the approval as a bare path. The
person could not click it to decide the approval.
> - This pull request adds one sentence to the chat guidance: write
every company link as a Markdown link.
> - The benefit is that the person gets a link they can open.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19344 (similar guidance for completion feedback about created
resources).

**What happened**

In the `agents.hire-needs-approval` chat eval, the CEO proposed a hire
and replied with `- Review the pending hire: /RUN/approvals/<id>`. The
chat rendered the path as plain text. No link to the approval was
rendered. In an earlier run of the same case, the agent wrote
`[/RUN/approvals/<id>](/RUN/approvals/<id>)`, which rendered as a link.
The guidance did not say which form to use.

**Expected behavior**

Company links in chat replies are Markdown links that the person can
click.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Set a company to require board approval for new agents.
2. Ask the CEO in chat to hire a QA engineer.
3. Look at the reply. Sometimes the approval path is plain text, and you
cannot click it.

## What Changed

- `server/src/services/agent-conversations.ts`: the chat directive now
says to write every company link as a Markdown link, for example
`[Review the approval](/<prefix>/approvals/<approvalId>)`. It says that
a bare path or a path in inline code is not clickable.
- `server/src/__tests__/agent-conversations.test.ts`: assert the new
guidance.

## Verification

- `cd server && pnpm exec vitest run
src/__tests__/agent-conversations.test.ts
src/__tests__/codex-local-execute.test.ts`: 71 passed.
- An end-to-end rerun of the `agents.hire-needs-approval` chat eval with
this change follows on the eval branch.

## Risks

- Low risk. This is a change to guidance text only. The prompt gets one
sentence longer.
- The model can still write a bare path. This change makes that less
likely. It does not rewrite replies.

## Model Used

- Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), with tool use and code
execution in Claude Code.

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [ ] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge

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